electric telegraph — An apparatus or instrument used to transmit intelligence to a distant point with the aid of electricity. Western Union Tel Co. v Hill, 163 Ala 18, 50 So 248. electric wire. See electric line … Ballentine's law dictionary

Electric Telegraph Company — was the world s first public telegraph company founded in the United Kingdom in 1846 by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and John Lewis Ricardo, MP for Stoke on Trent. C.F. Varley was chief engineer in the 1860s.It merged with the International… … Wikipedia